/vr/ - Retro Games

Ouch. I picked that game up for £10 at a market.

Why is ebay and other sellers so special needs?

>>1493007
Honestly fuck this guy.
Shit like this makes me puke a little.

>>1493010
"This cartridge has Mario on it, it must be worth a fortune!"

>>1493007
Could probably make more money by claiming it's some rare misprint that switched the colours.

Such fugly cart shapes

>>1493007
it's a few dollars short of 60 dollars.

>>1493046
This is the original shape. It's your duplo block abominations that look terrible, Brad.

Reminder that if you buy games for any other reason then to play them yourself you are just as much part of the problem.

>>1493007
I always enjoy posting this one.

>>1493853
JESUS.

>>1493549
Reminder that neither you nor anyone else will be able to play my FACTORY SEALED copy of Make My Video: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. Deal with it.

>>1493887
Pic please.

http://daytona.craigslist.org/vgm/4389797874.html

>>1493889
Thats isn't that bad.
Well, not retarded.

>>1493853

I don't get it.

>>1493892
$30 for a game that's $15-20 at best (and that's being generous toward resellers).

I got my copy of Blue for $10 at a store in a flea market a little over two years ago. Admittedly it was during a Christmas sale but still.

found this today, I feel sick.

>>1493549
>then to play them

You blew it

I got everything this guy is selling for $50

>>1493902
What do you expect. Mississauga is populated with subhumans.

>>1493929
50$ is an absolute steal, 100-150 would be reasonable.

>>1493018

>>1493942
Did you buy those from the Hamilton value village. Are you one of those reseller assholes that lurk my store.

>>1493984
wait a second I just realized theres an extra 9 on that Mario. Fuck we never price anything over 7.99

This is an actual listing I came across minutes ago...

>>1494000
Maybe he just forgot to put a decimal point in...after the two.

>>1494000
What are these fuckers smoking? How many MK games are actually valuable? I think that the JP PS1 release of Trilogy is expensive, but beyond that....

>25 bucks for FF1
>started the RPG genre
>one of the last games for NES
>come pick it up at my store

>>1494019
I remember loose Final Fantasy 1 NES fetching that same price in Funcoland / Gamestop days

how about a retardedly cheap listing? I'm amazed I was able to get this deal, the ad had been up for two days by the time I replied and somehow nobody had jumped on it yet.

>>1493987
You'd put Gamecube games for sale without a case? Just a bare disk in a bag?

>>1493018
Mario tax bra

>>1494060
its either that or throw them out. And they DO sell.
I dont make the rules, its just how people donate shit. 90% of ds cases I get are empty, so we just have to chuck them out.

>>1494067
Makes me feel so glad I kept all my Mario games from when I was a kid. The way some people try to price gouge on Mario is just insane.

>>1494085
I get that they're some of the most in-demand games for any nintendo system, but do people not understand they're also some of the most common?

I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to buy up every copy of mario bros/duck hunt I found back when they were all 89 cents.

>>1494096
>but do people not understand they're also some of the most common
I doubt it. Most people I know (not with retro stuff, just things in general) don't even bother to try and see if they can get a deal. They just tend to get whatever is shoved in front of their face more (which, unsurprisingly, tends to be the most expensive). That's part of why I really think this is just a huge bubble: because most people buying hardly know anything about it.

>>1494096
Build a throne out of them all

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEOGEO-LaserActive-3DO-Jaguar-CD-SEGA-SATURN-TurboGrafx-ATARI-Nintendo-DREAMCAST-/161249118067?pt=Video_Games&hash=item258b324773

I just found this...thing.

>>1494060
>>1494081
The pic of the discs was mine. That Savers also had two of these disc wallets hanging on the housewares rack and on a nearby shelf was a Gamecube (with Gameboy player ... didn't see its disc anywhere)

Someone must've donated their sysrtem, then they emptied out the wallets to sell the games individually.

>>1494102
I remember reading in an EGM from probably around 2003 or so that some guy had built a giant mario sprite in his driveway using painted copies of mario bros/duck hunt for each pixel. funny to think they were once cheap enough to do that, now I see people asking 15 bucks or more for SMB/duck hunt. fucking ridiculous.

>>1493902
I don't really involve myself with this stuff but could you explain what this person wants to do exactly?

>NO DELIVERY NO MEETING NO TRADE.

If they're not shipping it and they don't want me to meet them (since they're probably full of shame), how the FUCK do you get it? Do they want me to do the transaction online before traveling to a location where its concealed under a rock like in Shawshank Redemption?

>>1494112
>$64,816.32
that's an awfully specific price.

>>1494115
I said throne in particular because when I was in japan, this game store literally had a throne you could sit in that was made out of famicom games, I shit you not. Having a mario-duckhunt throne has since become my aspiration. Kinda just a reminder of how much cheaper retro games are over there

http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/vgm/4380208527.html

>>1494006
>How many MK games are actually valuable? I think that the JP PS1 release of Trilogy is expensive, but beyond that....

PAL release of Mortal Kombat Trilogy for Saturn is worth 200 euro based on condition (it can go higher). It got a very low print run, and it is one of the most rare PAL Saturn titles.

Too bad that it's a shit port that has more loading times than actual gameplay.

>>1494127
you mean the one at super potato? it's pretty fantastic.

there's a small local retro/import game shop chain in my area that is building one themselves, I walked in the other day and was very concerned until the guy hammering nails into these poor famicom carts told me they didn't work.

>>1494134
woops, forgot my pic

>>1494112
Seller's name is Shall We Play a Game.

lol'd heartedly

>>1494136
famicom games didn't have a standard color?

>>1494136
haha yup thats the one. I wish I had actually bought shit from that place, I just really couldn't think of anything to look for at the time.

>>1494143
nope. they didn't even have a standard shape, really. it was kind of anything goes.

>>1494134
>>1494136
>they didn't work
What? How? There is absolutely no fucking way all of those games had a broken circuit board with that sort of quality case, which is the only conceivable fucking way to ever break those fucking games. Sure, a nail would fucking do it though. Fuck people like this, I bet all of those would work with a simple cleaning.

>>1494176
I know it might be hard to believe, but sometimes they do legitimately stop working. I'm pretty sure if they could have made money on them, they would have instead of just turning it into a display piece that makes them nothing.

>>1493887
Fuck.

>>1494019
Is that the shop with the Back to the Future sign on it? I went there once and all the guy had were Genesis games. Though judging from that map that area looks closer to the ship yard than that shop is.

>>1494327
*I went there once and all the guy had for the Genesis were sports games

Whoops I flubbed that post up.

>>1494327
>>1494337
I have no idea, I live in Renton so I hardly ever make it out to Bremerton when I'm less than 20 minutes away from a Pink Gorilla at any given time. But if craigslist is anything to go by (literally like 90% of the Seattle/Tacoma area vidya ads are people advertising their shops), there have been a fair amount of retro game shops springing up in western Washington. It makes me wonder how many will stay around longer than a year.

>>1494394
I can't see them lasting long. Even the thrift shops are going by ebay prices where I live so it's not like these guys can make a good profit or get any good games with the over crowding of competition trying to snag everything possible.

>>1494404
Yeah I can't imagine them having any sort of staying power when they try to sell things at ridiculous markups. It's like they think the people coming into their shops don't know any better. I can understand thrift stores jacking prices up when video games aren't their main commodity, but when you deal in video games almost exclusively you better believe your customers are going to know just as much if not more about it than you do.

>>1494120
my guess is they want you to pay ridiculous prices AND come to their house so they can literally and figuratively assfuck you at the same time.

>>1494415
this. the seller is one of those nerd predators.

>>1494415
That's pretty hot.

>>1494120
He means no meeting halfway. You have to come to his house.

how could anyone put an ad up like this and expect replies?

>>1494394
holy shit someone else from Renton. Do you ever check the thrift stores in the highlands?

>>1494864
I haven't checked anywhere but goodwill. found a GBA SP there for 3 bucks which was pretty sweet.

d-do you wanna gamehunt with m-me anon?

>>1494120
>where its concealed

You blew it

I was talking with a guy who owns a retro video store, who's job is to resell video games at market demand, in the California Bay Area where the Retro Boom is probably the biggest and even he was saying it's ridiculous how much N64 games are going for.

When the guy making a a living off of reselling is complaining that resellers are gouging customers, something is wrong.

>>1494901
>who's job is to resell

You blew it

>>1494176
Super Potato actually cleans and repairs all the games they possibly can, so yeah chances are those were proper fucked man.

Even stuff they have in bargain bins listed as -junk or -not working- in fact does work.

I just sold a whole bunch of Pokemon games. Started the bidding at $50. Not sure how much that is in US money but it was a fair price. Any lower and I would have been ripping off myself

I have a factory sealed copy of FF Tactics. I played it when I was a kid and cme across this for cheap so I could sell it later. Now I cant let it go

>>1494081
>90% of ds cases I get are empty, so we just have to chuck them out.
Literally worse than Hitler. People pay good money for empty DS cases.

>>1494948
Why?

>>1494957
Cases for GBA games, and even original Game Boy games.

>>1494960
Why would you use a ds box for a gb/c game?

>>1494968
Because it's the easiest way to make it fit and still look nice because of the similar front/back dimensions.

>>1494968
Because they look great and have tons of covers already online to be printed

>>1494948
>>1494960
Yes, let's hold on to these empty cases in case that odd, OCD-addled game collector wanders in and haggles them down to 50 cents because they're "missing the game."

I too think it sucks that these cases are being tossed, but the store's gotta keep shit moving and can't keep around everything that might have some remote use to a few individuals.